Burns v. Van Loan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

In 1833 Patrick S. Ivers entered the land in controversy at the United States Land Office in Natchitoches, and paid part of the price. The land -is in Caddo parish. Ivers was a strolling peddler. It does not appear where he -lived at that time, if, indeed, he had any fixed habitation in this State. He had disappeared many years, when, in 1858, T. P. Hotchkiss applied to the court of Caddo parish to be appointed administrator of his succession, alleging that Ivors had “ departed this life many .years ago, leaving in this parish a small…